An Indian nobleman seated on a gari, a two-wheel, ox-drawn carriage with a domed roof. The driver kneels on a mat on the front, driving caparisoned oxen. Gari. Copperplate engraving by Jean-Baptiste Marie Poisson after an illustration by Pierre Sonnerat from his Voyage aux Indes Orientales et à la Chine (Voyage to the East Indies and China, Dentu, Paris, 1806.

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